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A highly actionable, well-structured audit methodology: every axis has a measurement procedure, numeric bands, and a complete output format, with the bulky worked example correctly split into a one-level-deep reference file. The main cost is token weight — extensive block quotes and per-cut rationale prose make it noticeably longer than the operational core requires.
Suggestions
Trim the multi-sentence block quotations from Fowler, Selenium, Cypress, and Playwright down to the operative rule plus a citation link — the A1 section alone carries three full quotes where the rules and their citations would carry the same authority at a fraction of the tokens.
Move the per-cut reasoning paragraphs (e.g., the blast-radius arithmetic for the depth-2 limit, the 300-line module rationale) into references/audit-detail.md, keeping only the cut values inline since the output format already mandates printing every convention with its value.
Condense the 'What this owns, and what it does not' boundary section (~30 lines including the three-capability table) to the table plus one or two sentences, since the disambiguation examples largely repeat what the table's rows already state.
| Dimension | Reasoning | Score |
|---|---|---|
Conciseness | The body is dense and operational, but multi-paragraph rationales for every numeric cut ("The reasoning is blast radius, and it is arithmetic rather than taste: every class in the chain is a place a change can originate") and full block quotations from Fowler, Selenium, and Playwright run longer than execution requires. It avoids explaining concepts Claude already knows (it explicitly declines to restate what a Page Object is), so it sits above anchor 2, but the verbosity exceeds anchor 4's "minor instances". | 3 / 5 |
Actionability | Every axis carries a concrete measurement procedure ("Count the distinct explicit timeout values. Three or more means nobody owns the timeout policy"), a numeric banding table, an exact output template with placeholders, and a worked example in the reference file covering a common case (Playwright + TypeScript). For an instruction-only skill the guidance is fully executable with no gaps — even file-versus-test counting is specified. | 5 / 5 |
Workflow Clarity | The workflow is well sequenced: explicit preconditions ("Before scoring: what the baseline is"), ordered axes A1–A8, an explicit rollup rule, a ranked fix order, and conditional checks such as "Ask whether a migration is running before scoring A5 and A7". It scores 4 rather than 5 because the sequence is distributed across sections rather than presented as one explicit step list with validation checkpoints, though the read-only nature of the audit means the destructive-operation cap does not apply. | 4 / 5 |
Progressive Disclosure | The single reference ("[references/audit-detail.md](references/audit-detail.md)") is real, clearly signaled for exactly what it contains (worked audit plus anti-pattern table), and nests no further references — one level deep. It scores 4 rather than 5 because the ~455-line main file still inlines content (lengthy source quotations, boundary discussion) that could itself be externalized. | 4 / 5 |
Total | 16 / 20 Passed |